Technically true I suppose. But go ask the average person on the street where the bank gets the money they lend people for mortgages and cars and such and I guarantee you the number of people that make that connection is going to be much much smaller than you seem to want to suggest.
It doesn't actually work the way it's portrayed in It's a Wonderful Life. The banks don't use depositor money to make loans. I suspect you will think what they actually do is even worse. Look into fractional reserve banking.
Never seen that movie but did watch a documentary ages ago about fractional reserve banking yes.
The bank still uses the deposit money in that system. You are right to point out those same people on the street I mentioned would freak out even more if they knew that banks essentially lend out more than we deposited and also that they might sell your debt and all that jazz (I bet most people either never understood what happened in 2008 or forgot already other than a vague "yeah mortgage crisis")
1) None. duck.ai for random questions/research for private use. No personal coding project or anything like that.
2) Yes, Anthropic models usually, at work. Pay as you go API. Company is trialing limits, routers and open weight and even local models. Since the Anthropic 5.5 models none seem reasonable to use any longer (for now at least)
3) Claude Code at work. Tried Aider early on and it failed to even read its initial context (Claude models like a year+ ago). I dropped it dead after that - unusable if you need me to specifically "load" and point our files. That's not agentic coding, sorry. Have not used the actual features my IntelliJ Ultimate subscription provides in quite a long time, though I loathe to tell IT/finance that. I do use it from time to time to double check what Claude tells me. Used `pi` w/ local models (some gemma and qwen that'd run on my hardware. nothing usable w/ the work code base - or much anything for that matter, like I'd not even get through an interview coding challenge with that if you ask me)
Did use Codex maybe like 8 months or so ago to ping pong implementation plans and reviews between GPT and Anthropic models but then just stuck with Anthropic for some reason.
4) Nope.
5) Nope. But we do have our own in-house review agent and software factory agent. Like think CodeRabbit et. al.
> so ornamentation added value.
When and where was this a common thing?
Depends on the houses. Your neighborhood one? Yeah I get what you're saying I guess, tho some of this probably still applies!
Large urban buildings? I recently-ish randomly watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOXF-FION4 "Why Everything We Build is Flat" i.e. how availability of caulk contributed to less beautiful houses (in urban settings at the least).
then a PR that tends to only get minor feedback is produced
How do you determine that this is because "Opus is so great" vs. "people are no longer reviewers but just approvers"?
As in, many if not most reviewers have always been nothing more than approvers, i.e. people that click the approve button with minimal to zero review, maybe a "pro forma" comment so nobody has them show up in some statistic as "only clicks the approve button".
With the amount of AI generated PRs this will have tended to become more of a problem, not less.
I don't know if you are working in an organization that's experienced this yet, but AI reviewers have superseded human reviewers, much like they have on the coding side. The value of developers is steering both of these and kind of doing a form of reading tea leaves amongst the two, but even that is collapsing.
TLDR, the coding output and automated reviewers have superseded humans at this point. No human is reading the PRs closely, anymore.
That is from the UK. The UK has no idea what rust is or what salted roads are.
I've rusted through multiple cars (also in the North East) in the last 20 years while a friend still has his 2006 model year car in pristine condition with regards to that and is debating whether to buy a new one coz he finally wants to take advantage of some of the advances since then but he can't justify it coz it's still fine and costs him just a few hundred bucks in normal maintenance.
Canada is large. Your local experience may not match everyone's lived experience. And yes, I'm not in but very close to one of the major Canadian cities, not in the actual boonies.
I can count more years where I've used the generator multiple times a year than years where I did not have to use the generator. Given we don't have automatic whole house failover and I have to actually bring it out, fill it, plug a bunch of things into extension cables we run all over the house etc. we only do it for "major" ones i.e. when it's been out for some time and the outage map shows that "it's not just us". And I'm in a part of our town that usually gets the least amount of power outages and is usually the first to get reconnected as well when it does. And our neighbors that do have automatic failovers are what I count as "actually a power outage". That happens even more often. Like the times when I'm like "OK if this goes one more minute I'm gonna 'fold' and go take out the generator". And then it comes back on after half an hour.
This usually happens around the start and end of winter nowadays meaning during storms and especially sleet/ice storms that coat the lines and trees. I.e. I need to remember to fill up the jerry cans soon actually, thanks for the reminder.
Now, vs. say what is being reported of the Philippines there this is still way more reliable but its nowhere near the reliability of what is cited about Germany.
That's an extraordinary experience. That's not everyone's lived experience. Interior BC, or Northern Ontario?
Zero blackouts for me (obviously a different part, but for a while in the one referenced by GP), except a transformer explosion (for me - a very real total lack of power for 7 days, but not the city, province, or Canada). A Canada blackout is impossible right now (we have several separate networks with interties, and each individual network has failsafes preventing an outage spreading). Although, a series of cascading bad decisions could work.. I guess.. if you like that sort of thing.
Transformer explosion is a really good reference you make there. Not extraordinary at all. Maybe where you are. Not here. Like I said, don't extrapolate from your own Canadian experience to the rest of Canada. There are many thousands of kilometers from coast to coast and the weather is quite different across. I regularly talk to people at work where while I shiver at -20C they sit in the rain in "winter" ;)
The explosions is what we get every single winter. Not necessarily affecting ourselves. But we get "the sky light up" and "loud boom" multiple times every winter. Each time we go like "OK I guess it's starting". Many times it doesn't actually start for us given where we are specifically but I check the outage map and then I see how far away some of those actually are vs. how alight the sky was and how loud it was through closed windows. As in, it seems like it was a street over and it was actually many many kilometers away!
And like I said, big metro area with millions of people. Most of those definitely don't experience this as much as we do here as much of the actual "city" area of that has either buried power lines or when they don't there are no trees nearby (very sad actually). "Out here" in the "boonie but not actual boonies" part of the metro area the power lines do all run above ground and among trees in many parts of the area.
So yeah, while a big 2003 style outage may not be very likely any longer, for my local experience that really doesn't matter a lot in that sense and even in Canada in total, power outages of a half million households plus have happened more recently than your 2003 reference. Not limited to my earlier 2023 example (nicely recent, only 3 years ;) )
April 2023 ice storm Quebec: 1,125,000 customers without power at the same time. Ontario: Hydro One reported over 114,000 affected customers. Hydro Ottawa reported 56,000.
Well I for one got so used to the CVT it's not even funny any more. Every time we rent a car we get a random non-CVT car and the acceleration behavior is just so funky in comparison, I can't stand it any more.
Nobody has to accept that disclaimer even a single time. I never have. Most times its disappeared before I ever get a chance to have to do anything on the screen. I just start driving :shrug:
Sounds more like either an actual compliance or preventative CYA compliance thing if you ask me.
If they think they need to show you this (for whatever reason, their legal department said so), then it has nothing to do with bad UX design but really, being in between a rock and a hard place. If my legal team made me do this, I'd also show it every single time, because you have zero guarantee that the person driving the car this time is the same person that saw and accepted the dialog the last time. Even if you think about "driver profiles", that totally goes out the window in a rental car scenario for sure and even in a non-rental one, not everyone that has a car that has "driver profiles" will make use of the feature.
So as a dev I would show this for whatever period of time legal required me to show it, to CYA for the above cases and then I'd just close it because I don't want to annoy people so much as to actually require an actual "click" on the accept button.
as a dev that presumably cares about the product i work on, I would look at every other car that somehow manages not to do this obnoxious useless thing, and argue till i'm blue in the face with my compliance folk that its a stupid ask. I might not win, but id sure try.
Im guessing its the opposite - the devs involved in this were probably outsourced (famously legacy car manufacturers do this, its all cobbled together external chunks), and didnt give a shit at all. Closed the jira task for compliance and moved on without a second thought. This is why Subaru and other legacy car companies make such atrocious UX.
Interesting how Infotainment crosses into EyeSight for you though. That's not at all what that means.
And yes it beeps and you can't turn the beeping off completely. It's supposed to annoy you into using the blinkers properly. Different cars/model years seem to have different levels of annoyingness in the actual beep and different volume settings available though.
My (also 2020) never beeps when EyeSight can't see the lanes, whether its steering or not. It beeps when you cross a line without blinking or you're crossing the lines and would soon be driving on the shoulder/into the trees. It does sometimes have issues where it beeps a bit too early, i.e. it seems the calculations from the visuals are a bit off in certain situations.
I live on a narrow-ish rural road with no fog line on the shoulder, and drove a 2024 Outback. It definitely did this constantly. It was fixed in the 2025 model (no idea if it got backported to the older cars), and does it less, but still does it.
It’s the screen yelling at me so I consider it part of the same system. It’s not about the blinkers it just turns off frequently because there are poor lane markings where I live.
Besides that the rest of the UI is slow and annoying. I can never remember which sub menu different annoying beeps are under. Carplay is much slower too than in other cars.
YMMV as always. I don't even notice the visuals. The lane change alerts at least in the two Subarus I've had that had EyeSight already have it on the main dash, i.e. the small screen not the big Infotainment screen in the middle console.
I don't get the "turning off because lane markings" comment tbh and we got some pretty bad ones here as well, especially in winter (i.e. often none at all :) Are we talking completely different things or did they change anything past 2024 models (last one I know)?
Coz EyeSight does not turn off just because there are no markings. It turns off if it can't see, i.e. too much rain, smudgy glass in front of the cameras etc. It doesn't care about the lane markings just to follow the car in front of me. But sure if it can't find the lane markings then I can't enable the auto-steering (which I find way too janky anyway - pretty annoying that it seems to steer left and right between the markings instead of holding steady in the middle and adjusting smoothly, so I never use it).
I can never remember where settings I touch exactly once to set them up either. For any car. Set it and forget it.
No experience with carplay but Android Auto support does depend a lot on the phone. My older Motorola and Samsung phone always sucked, often didn't connect at all with most cables. Since I got a Pixel, zero problems at all.
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